- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 19:08:07 -0400
- To: www-tag@w3.org
- Cc: ph@w3.org
In the last call working draft of SGRS, http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar/#S2.2.2 a reference to another document can specify the content type of the destination object in a way that overrides any content-type provided by the HTTP server . The same was true of (svg? smil?). I understand that the intent was specifically to be able to reference a lot of existing data in legacy (probably unregistered) mime types. This is obviously counter to the architecture, but meets a real need in practice for servers which just can't be configured by the people who publish on them. This is fact a social/tools mess - if the config files took local directory input then all would be well. Maybe a compromise is to only allow the link to specify the content-type when the server is FTP (or something else with no content-type control) or the HTTP server returns text/plain or octet-steam, which seem to be used for "don't know" types. It is of course consistent to indicate "the contents of this document expressed in whatever language but then reinterpreted as application/whatever" but in practice such references are kludges and would for example make the introduction of new versions of application/whatever more difficult. Tim
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